Nursing home workers and long-term care advocates are airing concerns about the implementation of the 2021 New York state law that sets minimum staffing standards for nursing homes.
1199SEIU, the largest union of healthcare workers in the country, contends nursing home operators are forcing staff to work in facilities with an insufficient number of caregivers and workers to provide adequate care.
The Nebraska Cooperative Development Center has scheduled a meeting to focus on the proposed organization of the Midwest Compassion Homecare Cooperative.
This co-op would be for people who provide "companion care" for older people, not care for people described as "medically fragile."
A late Mendham nursing home resident who suffered from lockdowns and misguided policies during the Covid-19 pandemic inspired a bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Aura Dunn and passed by the Aging and Senior Services Committee Thursday. The bill (A4657), drafted in memory of 99-year-old Sally Griscavage Florek, would provide residents of long-term care facilities greater protections during periods of infectious disease outbreaks. Florek died in April 2020 after she was treated in the hospital for a fall and released back to the nursing home despite testing positive for Covid-19.
President of Beaumont Health Dr. Benjamin Susick has named Nancy Susick chief operating officer for acute and post-acute services at the health system that is now part of BHSH System after combining with Grand Rapids’ Spectrum Health last year. In this role she will oversee Beaumont’s hospital presidents. As she takes on this position, Susick will leave her previous role of president of Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak. Over the past year, Susick served as co-chief operating officer in an interim capacity. Beginning in February, she also served as interim president of Beaumont Health for five months when Beaumont Health joined with Spectrum Health.
For years, professionals in the home care and hospice industry have been working nonstop on behalf of pediatric patients, geriatric patients, disabled veterans, and anyone in need of home care, regardless of age or disability. This work and the challenges our patients face are largely invisible to most, unless you’re one of the families desperately relying on home care services. Our industry is proud to serve this incredibly diverse patient population and our workforce doesn’t show up every day for the accolades — we show up for the disabled child, the elderly patient, and the relieved caregivers who count on us to keep their loved one at home and make life a little easier.
Newly hired nurses will get a $7,500 bonus to sign on to work at Westmoreland Manor in Hempfield, which, like other care homes across the country, is plagued by staffing issues. Nursing aides hired after Sept. 1 will be awarded a $4,000 bonus to work at the county-owned care facility. Commissioners approved the bonuses last week. The hope is to remain competitve with similar payouts made by private nursing homes and other medical facilities to attract staff, according to commissioners.